Discord is making a huge change that will enact age restrictions for all accounts until users verify their age with ID or face scans.
  • Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    A 12 yo that I know scanned his face. It recognized it as an adult and now he can’t talk with his friends, only adults…

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    This is for one reason one reason only. So dear leader can find out where you live if you say something unkind about him.

  • kuro@piefed.socialEnglish
    182·
    8 days ago

    I would love to have an alternative to which some of the communities I am currently in can migrate. Not easy to find anything that is like Discord.

      • kuro@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        It looks interesting. Do you know if I as a user can join multiple groups? Because I am part of a few servers on Discrod with widely different topics and its not an option to have one community and have all people join there.

      • kuro@piefed.socialEnglish
        15·
        8 days ago

        Slack needs payment to have group calls. Also it would be nice to move something open and ideally something self-hosted.

          • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
            4·
            8 days ago

            Matrix is no where near the level of discord, if all you need is a chat app than ya sure, simplex or Matrix work great. If you want feature parity… Definitely not either of those two, as they are just glorified sms/group text apps.

        • Beacon@fedia.io
          213·
          8 days ago

          Well don’t downvote the comment that answered your question. If you’re looking for something that’s exactly exactly exactly Z, then the answer will only ever be Z

          • kuro@piefed.socialEnglish
            8·
            8 days ago

            Believe it or not. I did not downvote you. Seems crazy but there are other people here and promoting Slack seems to be a not so popular opinion.

          • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            10·
            8 days ago

            You’re getting downvoted because your answer was bad. Slack isn’t “not exactly like discord”, slack is not even remotely close to a replacement for discord unless you are only considering text based lobbies. Slack is built around enterprise IM as a paid service, discord is built around gaming voice chat as a free service.

            If someone says that they want to replace their Tesla and you offer a golf cart to them while saying, “they’re both electric, so same difference”, don’t be surprised by others finding that unhelpful.

      • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        Slack requires payment for messages to persist over 90 days. We used to use Slack for an organization I’m part of. We moved to Discord when that was introduced which is kinda funny.

        • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          Screen share, specifically with low latency, is a huge feature thats really widely used. Everything from watching videos together, to playing RPGs via the shared screen, to coaching esports games. When I tried Matrix before (like a year ago) the multi-second latency on screen sharing was what made me give up on it.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      I’ve been told to try Stoat a lot today, but the Discord news seems to have hugged their signup system to death.

      • kuro@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Well thats good and bad at the same time. I will try today as well. Maybe Stoat can get a critical number of users going to get this really started.

  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    161·
    8 days ago

    So what alternative to Discord are we switching to? I’m geniunely asking because my server is an 18+ Roleplay Server and members have been asking what we’re moving to… And we don’t really have an answer for them.

    I’ve been encouraging everyone to add me on Telegram so we can keep in touch, but Telegram doesn’t allow it in the ToS for you make 18+ Only Groups

  • northendtrooper@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    8 days ago

    If they did it right they would grandfather older accounts And start with new(er) accounts. But we know that is not the goal.

      • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
        17·
        8 days ago

        Discord age-verification bot: “Your account is nine years old, and nine-year-olds are too young to use Discord. Terminating account.”

        • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          You joke but I saw so many complaints when Facebook and Twitter started blocking 13 and younger from people who had ten year old accounts, created when they were under 13, getting banned, despite currently not being underaged. Because the verification was built terribly.

    • Chiqa@midwest.socialEnglish
      32·
      8 days ago

      You want surveillance, dawg?

      open curtains, dont lock your doors even bathroom ones, unlock your phone and have all accounts have password stored in plain sights AND THEN give phone and all intimate things to rwndom evil people so they can also install spy software si they can repeat thos 24/7!

      if u dont care about privacy THWTS AIS

  • Draconic NEO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    113·
    8 days ago

    There definitely needs to be a social pressure to drop discord, I propose that there needs to be some level of social stigma around using or liking discord. Like for example if someone says they prefer discord or like its look and features and promote people to verify or even buy Discord Nitro, call them a discord bro or similar negative quip (we can find the names and phrases in due time). If that sounds too harsh consider that if someone said they like to use chatGPT and prefer to use it, a lot of people would call them AI bros for that. It isn’t much different. Social stigma is a powerful motive. Especially for creators and for platforms where PR is of utmost importance.

    Like if Discord usage is stigmatized we can go from discord API logins on community sites and projects to them never even acknowledging discord exists. That’s what will drive change, not inconvenience, not privacy violations by discord, or even good intentions on their part. Shame that loses people’s respect for them.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    481·
    8 days ago

    Cool.

    The restrictions won’t change what little I use it for, but it might piss off some of my friends who are deep in the discord rabbit hole.

  • Christopher@lemmy.grey.failEnglish
    16·
    8 days ago

    I wonder if they’ll take into account that, had I signed up at (the youngest possible age of) 13, the age of my account would then make me 21. I suppose they can’t really sell that inferred data…